{"id":105337,"date":"2020-04-14T11:21:54","date_gmt":"2020-04-14T18:21:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/collisions-reveal-new-evidence-of-anyon-quasiparticles-existence"},"modified":"2020-04-14T11:21:54","modified_gmt":"2020-04-14T18:21:54","slug":"collisions-reveal-new-evidence-of-anyon-quasiparticles-existence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/collisions-reveal-new-evidence-of-anyon-quasiparticles-existence","title":{"rendered":"Collisions reveal new evidence of \u2018anyon\u2019 quasiparticles\u2019 existence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/collisions-reveal-new-evidence-of-anyon-quasiparticles-existence2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sometimes, two dimensions are better than three.<\/p>\n<p>In the three-dimensional world we live in, there are two classes of elementary particles: bosons and fermions. But in two dimensions, theoretical physicists predict, there\u2019s another option: anyons. Now, scientists report new evidence that anyons exist and that they behave unlike any known particle. Using a tiny \u201ccollider,\u201d researchers <a href=\"https:\/\/science.sciencemag.org\/cgi\/doi\/10.1126\/science.aaz5601\">flung presumed anyons at one another<\/a> to help confirm their identities, physicists report in the April 10 <em>Science<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>All known elementary particles can be classified either fermions or bosons. Electrons, for example, are fermions. Bosons include photons, which are particles of light, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencenews.org\/article\/higgs-found\">famed Higgs boson<\/a>, which explains how particles get mass (<em>SN: 7\/4\/12<\/em>). The two classes behave differently: Fermions are loners and avoid one another, while bosons can clump together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes, two dimensions are better than three. In the three-dimensional world we live in, there are two classes of elementary particles: bosons and fermions. But in two dimensions, theoretical physicists predict, there\u2019s another option: anyons. Now, scientists report new evidence that anyons exist and that they behave unlike any known particle. Using a tiny \u201ccollider,\u201d [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105337\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}